Mistletoe
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Mistletoe is the common name for a group of hemi-parasitic plants in the order Santalales that grow attached to and within the branches of a tree or shrub. Parasitism evolved only nine times in the plant kingdom; of those, the parasitic mistletoe habit has evolved independently five times: Misodendraceae, Loranthaceae, Santalaceae (formerly considered the separate family Eremolepidaceae), and Santalaceae (formerly treated as the separate family Viscaceae). Although Viscaceae and Eremolepidaceae were placed in a broadly-defined Santalaceae by Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2, DNA data indicates that they evolved independently. The word 'mistletoe' is of uncertain etymology; it may be related to German Mist, for dung and Tang for branch, since...
ISBN: 978-6-1306-4785-8
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Дата выхода: июль 2011
